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Endeavour Launch Rescheduled

PyroMosh writes: "Well, NASA scrubbed yesterday's launch of STS-108 after the Russians broke the space station. It's been rescheduled for tonight 7:18 PM EST (0018 GMT). As was noted in yesterday's story, there will be all kinds of frightening new security in place to assure the saftey of Endeavour, her crew, and her mission in these troubled times."

6 comments

  1. "...after the Russions broke the space station..." by HyperbolicParabaloid · · Score: 3, Funny

    God damned commies... oh, wait...

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  2. Great by Not2Bryt64 · · Score: 2, Funny
    1. Based on a fuzzy video of the docking, flight controllers suspect a 1-foot cable -- or something else entirely -- is preventing the ship from latching on. But no one seemed to know where the cable came from.
    Well, at least they are on top of things!
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  3. The Russians didn't break nothin' by DaoudaW · · Score: 2

    It seems like the article posts are getting more misleading all the time. The article clearly states that a bit of debris, maybe a 1 foot cable, interfered with the docking of an unmanned supply ship.

    Nobody broke nothin' 'cause nothin's broke!

    1. Re:The Russians didn't break nothin' by PyroMosh · · Score: 1

      It was just a joke. After some of Russia's previous toubles with space stations, I thought it might be humorous. I *know* they didn't break the space station. But I thought wording it like that would make it obvious to anyone that it was ment humorously. I tell you man, it's those damned Russians! They're bad luck to have on space stations!

      Note: Once again, that was ment to be funny.

    2. Re:The Russians didn't break nothin' by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Didn't you see Armageddon? Russians are the best thing to have on space stations, next to Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck.

  4. Try again next tuesday by imrdkl · · Score: 1

    Looks like they gotta go EVA